New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
HOME TRAINING.

DISCIPLINE. Funk WagnShs'
,-,, u.,l. hooh xas pIblished anonymously IN Eng
land some sixty years since IL has oeen
"a ,,,v.se.,,use IL has struck some American parents
e,i taDkers rs containing great deal OF very eoo.
.sosc and sound morality, and also because 'ue anna VI
training 4, iueuleates has aliaOst disappeared anons u.s.
al lbs been succeeded by methods whose results as
,bo In the manners and morals OF the present genera
81, viii not compare favoraby with thUse the Ola sys
fem produced. The simple teachings or THIS uhNho"h
writer viii naturally appear TO many II NOT most.
noierns rs sayoIing Of remote ahuquty' taiSo
nations Of individual rights, OF liberty, OF the PRIVILEGES
Of children AMI the duties OF parents. have so revou
,iouized the family nowadays that a treatise winch
speaks Of nal obedience Of gooi manners OF self anne
gttiop of modesty. qualities and habits essential 10
primary education may prove hhcut OF comprenens'o
ia the majority IL Is however, all the more lnpo .
that these forgotten truths shoud be re Iear'cd' ~
can De no onger doubted that the consequences OF
INC them have been nothing less than disastrous "
fer. ,..
The anthor talks simply and directly ana az Oh mat
tiers generally recognized she-for tnefe cAh 20
doubt that ii is wOman-is oiaEashone' o""e
believe that IL is the duty OF fathers ana motuers
make children submissive. truthful polite just geher
ms patieut courageous industrious, perse'erhe' "o
%, r,ou. and well hammered. All this too she Is OF
opjnion can only be taught at home ana lot 'e o''
mart 10 the mothers knee Now admitting TOT the sake
of argument II is possible so 10 tram ehiureh' eau
iua
woua present TO average product OF the free ana IN
denenAeut system prevailing OF course II is perfectly
that most modern children learn none OF these
things They rather taught to be seulsh ereeuy'
inpudent mendacious vain, forward. uncouth h-nal-
pered and dsagreeable TO everybody but their pha'
doting and feeble minded parents. And lnasinuch as
the tye of child now being evolved must be regarded as
ANYTHING but success and 1nasmncn as the suggestions
given in this little book are calculated to produce an
entirely different and in all ways preferable type the
sndy of the volume may be earnestly recommended 10
all fathers and mothers
But our unknown author has matter Of importance Tor
the parents themselves well that which regards the
children alone. Her remarks upon the necessity OF
preserving tue temper when dealing with children arc
much to point and also what she says as 10 'he I'M
porance OF speaking the truth TO the ana OF eultva
ins sense of honor in them by assuming Its existence
md depending upon it. OF course the parents VINO
think their children ought TO have their own way IN
everything who 20 in for giving the little ones good
time" and who consider good manners and morals OF no
consequence expect vaguely that they VIII De learned
Of school along with reading and writing, VIII quarrel
with the precepts here laid down But nc man or
woman Of average Judgment can fail TO see that the new
education develops all that worst in the character
whereas the old system evolved only what best and
suppressed vicious tendencies Perhaps Herbert spen
Ger has done more mischief IN this direction than any
living man. His book education has had more raise
meanings read into it than would destroy the best ss
TEN ever conceived. His Ideas upon the lIectom oI
children however mainly responsible for the propO
stops and harmful experiments made during the past
twenty years. and therefore he cannot be acquitted OF
the charge of perversiOn. This little book modest as
IL is and unpre,endng, rests higher and sounder
philosophy than Spencers and were 1t generally read
and its advice taken, would produce marked reforms ID
home training and discipline in comparatively short
time II way he read with profit by those parents
land their name is legion who think no one can tell
them how TO bring up their children.